Actors Tracy Letts, Carrie Coon sell Bucktown mansion for $3M

A married couple of accomplished Chicago stage actors, Tracy Letts and Carrie Coon, have headed to New York to focus on an HBO television series starring Coon and just sold their Bucktown mansion for 22 percent below their initial asking price.

The couple sold their 6,873-square-foot contemporary-style mansion at 1755 North Wilmot Avenue last week for $3.1 million, the Chicago Tribune reported. It’s a shade more than the $3 million Letts paid for the home and triangle-shaped property in 2009.

An alumnus of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Letts, whose talents span acting, playwriting and screenwriting, won both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for his 2007 play, “August: Osage County,” which was adapted to film in a 2013 production starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. His wife, Coon, is also a local star in Chicago’s stage performance community, but has most recently made a name for herself starring in HBO’s “The Gilded Age,” which is filmed in New York.

It’s the first Bucktown sale this year for more than $3 million for a single-family home, according to Zillow data. The North Side neighborhood has been on the rise, with more modern residential developments getting built along the 606 Trail, which has become more popular and is steps away from Letts and Coon’s home built in 2003.

In October, a rare sale for more than $4 million took place in the area, flirting with the Bucktown record, when another home built in 2015 and connected to the TV industry for its appearances in Chicago-based shows, at 1743 North Wolcott Avenue, sold for $4.4 million.

Letts and Coon now primarily live in a Brooklyn brownstone, and they privately listed the Bucktown home for sale in March 2022, initially asking $3.99 million, and later put it on the public market for $3.6 million. After dropping the price two more times, ultimately to $3 million in January, the home sold for more than the asking price to a buyer using an opaque land trust.

The couple claims they’ll be back in the Windy City before too long. Coon told the Tribune in a text that “Tracy and I are committed Chicagoans who are temporarily relocating to New York for work.”

Their former five-bedroom home has three fireplaces, 100 feet of street frontage and an attached three-car garage with two vehicle entrances. The home also has a screening room, home gym and four outdoor living spaces, including a private garden and a rooftop deck. The primary bedroom suite has a walk-in closet and two private patios.

Stephanie Klein Trout and Kristie Edwards, of @properties Christie’s International Real Estate, were the listing agents for the home.

 — Victoria Pruitt